A Miami Police officer who needlessly tasered a homeless man and then covered it up will be reprimanded, his department says. The incident was the central focus of a recent New Times investigation into widespread Taser misuse by Miami cops. Officer Vincent Miller's punishment has yet to be finalized, a...
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When you were a kid, were your walls covered in memorabilia, posters, old pictures, and postcards? Did you one day decide to throw that stuff away or hide it in some drawer or box with the rest of your relics? It may seem like junk without context, but these old...
Named after the group of laborers that mounts plays in the woods in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, this Austin-based collective launched in 1995 after its members, then undergrads at the University of Texas, studied the Bard in barns. It was all part of a summer retreat called Shakespeare at...
Before it was a month old, Matador Room was named one of the best places to dine among celebrities in the United States by CNN.com. But star diners such as Linda Evangelista and David Schwimmer are just one of many reasons the restaurant has been generating so much buzz. It...
On a recent Monday morning, artist Xu Bing stands at a lectern at the Frost Art Museum. He’s teaching a group of fifth-graders from North Miami’s W.J. Bryan Elementary, a museum magnet school, a new language he calls “Chinglish.” Xu’s unconventional lingo is a method of writing English words in...
Thom Collins, director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), announced late on Wednesday that he would be leaving the museum to become the director of the highly respected Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. The museum's deputy director for external affairs, Leann Standish, will become the interim director after Collins departs...
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The trendy Fontainebleau Miami Beach, a onetime Frank Sinatra haunt, is the raucous pinnacle of Miami nightlife. Eight miles north, at the tip of Miami-Dade County, is Turnberry Isle, a more family-oriented yet no less extravagant resort. They share several things. Both are owned by the Soffer family, Dade County...
The Miami International Film Festival closes Sunday, and you, a typical Miamian, have been too busy fighting traffic to make it to one of the films in the staggering array of international cinema gracing local screens this month. Don't panic! There's still time to catch plenty of mind-blowing films. Here...
Lazaro Cancela was eating at a Cuban restaurant in Sweetwater when the meal was rudely interrupted: Gerard Brito, who was formerly married to Cancela's mom, became enraged at the sight of his former step-son and decided to take action, according to a recent complaint reported on by Courthouse News. Cancela's...
After two surprising trips to the AFC championship game during his first two years, Rex Ryan quickly settled into everything a Miami Dolphins fan would want out of a New York Jets head coach. The man was practically a caricature of what we imagine their fan base to be: portly,...
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke calls for the federal government to investigate gang bangers. Across Miami-Dade County, black communities are under siege. Local...
For years, cops accused of needlessly tasering suspects have been protected in South Florida. Even in instances when suspects have died after being shocked, officers have avoided blame in both criminal and civil courts. That could be changing, however. Last week, district judge James Lawrence King ruled that a jury...
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David Rivera didn't want to talk. The embattled ex-congressman had walked into a Miami clerk's office to file paperwork for a comeback bid expecting a quick photo op and a few softball questions from a Spanish-language TV crew. Instead, he found Marc Caputo and his handheld camera. The beautifully awkward...
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke predicts Marco Rubio's political future. Despite all his blustering about making a run for the Oval Office, Florida...
Strolling through the streets of New Orleans, Tony McGuinness can't help being charmed by the crumbling, romantic building facades as they peer through the bayou mist. He's going Insta-crazy, taking and uploading pic after pic. "I'm a huge fan of faded grandeur," he says. Maybe that's why, as a third...
For the uninitiated, the International Noise Conference might sound like a pedantic experience. But don't worry. There's no keynote speaker, and there sure as hell aren't any PowerPoint presentations. Revelers have come to Churchill's Pub annually since 2004 for a cornucopia of radical weirdness: hooded artistes tweaking knobs to generate...
The world is a terrible place. That's the uncompromising truth with which Tina Fey and Robert Carlock begin Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), their follow-up to the under-seen but culturally monumental 30 Rock. The very first scenes of Unbreakable's first season, which will be released in its binge-able entirety on March...
One of 2015's most anticipated restaurants, NaiYaRa, is set to open at 1854 Bay Road in Miami Beach's Sunset Harbour neighborhood, joining Pubbelly, Lucali, Icebox Caf�, Sardinia, and the Fresh Market to further solidify the reputation of this out-of-the-way pocket of South Beach as a culinary oasis. According to an...
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Update: Shortly after Bosch's sentencing, Alex Rodriguez issued his first apology to fans for secretly buying banned drugs from Bosch for years. This morning, U.S. District Court Judge Darrin Gayles sentenced Biogenesis chief Tony Bosch to 48 months in federal prison and three years of probation upon his release on...
Gangs. Same as always, just with weirder names. A joint effort by the U.S. Attorney Office of South Florida, the Miami Police Department, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives resulted this week in the arrest of 21 members of a gang known as the Big Money Team...
Bands get together. Bands break up. From national arena acts to tiny garage bands, no musician is immune. Even when things are going well, you never know when a cymbal might fly across the recording studio, striking a lead singer in the forehead and forever ending your favorite group's career...
With all the food festivals in Miami, it's usually tough to get jazzed up about yet another dinner or tasting. However, the upcoming Common Threads Cooking for Life Festival has an amazing lineup. The Chicago-based organization was founded by chef Art Smith and his husband, artist Jesus Salgueiro, in an...